Two-Headed Dog 528

[capoverde]

Let me first tribute a heartfelt THANK YOU to Playdayz (Larry) and all the involved developers for the absolutely amazing LuPu5.2.5.

Now testing Luci 5.2.8 installed on an SD card, running on an MSI U135 Wind netbook - seems great, posting with it and with SeaMonkey 2.3 in Italian.

Please provide pet for new seamonkey 2.3

This has been my reaction to the quest for an updated Seamonkey .PET: being curious by nature and seeing that the available .PET versions are soon outdated, for about one year now I've been able to always use the most recent (and *localized*!) version of SeaMonkey by getting the plain-vanilla "seamonkey-XY.tar.bz2" straight from the project site, and unpacking it somewhere in a separate folder.

This isn't the orthodox Puppy way, it breaks some rules, it takes up some more disk space, may run into dependency trouble etc.; and anyway, knowing I'm chronically prone to improper tinkering, I'm not recommending it, no responsibility etc. etc. But... up to now it worked nicely, and can be undone in a jiffy if there are problems. What's more, to me it just exploits Puppy's versatility in full.

The new version can be tested to one's satisfaction starting it with a click on the "seamonkey" script in the extracted folder. Then, if and when all seems to work fine, the last line in /usr/bin/defaultbrowser:

exec quickpet BI "$@"

can be simply commented out, and followed by a line with something like

/mnt/home/seamonkey/seamonkey

i.e., where the starting script resides, making everything work normally (the browser starts with a click on the "browse" icon).

Presently my HD has the three last versions of SeaMonkey available (2.1, 2.2 and 2.3): a simple renaming of the corresponding folders switches to a different version, and since the browser's preferences are stored in /root/.mozilla, they keep valid for any version.

BTW, speaking of browsers, let me also suggest QtWeb, a cute little browser with much of Puppy's spirit:

http://www.qtweb.net/downloads/QtWeb-elf386.zip

Even the Windows version under Wine starts faster than SeaMonkey or Firefox.

[cthisbear]

playdayz:

" Just having hard time understanding the path that was taken.

The update process got a little carried away, but the features that
where added and the fixes that where implemented made a much
better Puppy "

" Just issue what we have got - officially. "


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My view is that Two-Headed Dog 528 should have been released
as an official Puppy.

Too many good things went in and Sweet FA was left that was rubbish.

Plenty of official Pups weren't to this standard.

Plenty of variants were based on your good work and the help
of all the rest of the Puppy testers.

Plenty of times Barry just released an official...got bored.
And I understand that.

Let's be reasonable here.
When MS released Windows 7 they were bloody furious
when they found out that Intel left out a needed Sata Driver.

How many friggin' people tested that and it was unnoticed.

A rethink needed.

What will happen is that some people won't be bothered to test in future.
Cheesed off....and quite honestly where is the logic.
Flawed.

And floored a lot of the Puppy crowd here.
Every release brings us more grateful Puppy newbies.
This release is as friendly as you can get.

Slacko I haven't bothered with.
This is not out of disrespect to 01micko.
He's a great bloke.
But this seems to have too many problems.
Time will tell.

Chris.

[majorfoo]

Please provide pet for new seamonkey 2.3

http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... cid525.pet

Thanks Playdaz for quick response to my request for new Seamonkey pet.

I am running Three Headed Dog with new Seamonkey pet.
Have not encountered any problems with this version.

Thanks for all your hard work and dedication to Puppy.

majorfoo

[playdayz]

This has been my reaction to the quest for an updated Seamonkey .PET: being curious by nature and seeing that the available .PET versions are soon outdated, for about one year now I've been able to always use the most recent (and *localized*!) version of SeaMonkey by getting the plain-vanilla "seamonkey-XY.tar.bz2" straight from the project site, and unpacking it somewhere in a separate folder.

Yes capoverde, that is what I did when I was "on my own." It is convenient to have the pets, but as you say, browsers change rapidly nowadays.

[capoverde]

...Ahhhh, so it was your thoughts I was perceiving telepathically. Thanks once more! Even better than posting to the forum.

[playdayz]

Two-Headed Dog has done its job. Nothing horrible turned up, so I went back on my medication and released it officially as Lucid 5.2.8.

If you have been using Two-Headed Dog, it is identical to Lucid 5.2.8 except for the naming. You can switch to Lucid 5.2.8 by renaming the lucisave file to lupusave and booting the Lucid 5.2.8 Live-CD, or by renaming the lucisave to lupusave and then opening the Lucid 5.2.8 iso file and copying the Lucid 5.2.8 files into the luci-528 directory (for a frugal install).

As always, fresh installations are the easiest.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=70855

[stiginge]

I had the same exact wlan0 issue, right after the Two-Headed Dog 528 installation, an hour ago.
My installation process was:
1. USBflash frugal type. Copied 3 files from the CD image to my primary partition. copied the lupusave file to my 2nd partition. Renamed it to lucisave.
I rebooted.
2. Came up fine, except the wireless net was not connected. I did the SNS setup and was able to use Chromium to get onto the internet.
I rebooted.
3. Came up fine, except the wireless connection was not working. I tried using SNS first. Nothing seemed to help. No wireless net, in the area, was recognized at all. It kept pointing me to the main network window.
I mucked around with the non-SNS network settings, and that didn't help.
I shutdown the system.
4. Powered up. Everything came up fine, including the network. It has been fine ever since. I have rebooted several times since then, without any problems.

Something about the installation process messes up the network settings, but only for the second reboot. All further reboots seem to work fine.

It's every boot now for me, no connection whatsoever, network scan in network wizard not finding any network.

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ifconfig wlan0 up

siocsifflags: device not found

[Colonel Panic]

I like the name, which is very close to "Dog of Two Head" (a Status Quo album), some of which I remember fondly from my teens Doubt that will have positive associations for many other Puppy users though.

More seriously, I prefer the look of the later Lucids to the earlier ones (such as 520). The wallpapers in particular are getting smarter now.

[TIW]

Hello. Thank you for another great Puppy. I wonder however, if someone could let me know, why I can not connect to the Internet by 3G modem. I am perfectly able to connect using Quirky 142. What is the difference between Lupu 528 and Quirky 142 in regard to Internet connection drivers ? Thanks for your help.

[TIW]

Hi again. The above problem of not being able to connect to the Internet by 3G modem has fixed itself. Don’t ask me how. I did a new install and was able to connect. That problem solved I encountered a new one.

The application bcrypt is not working. Since I do use it frequently with Quirky 142 I would really appreciate if I had it available in lucid 528 too.
Has anyone ells problems with bcrypt ? How can that be fixed ? Thank for your help.

[Béèm]

TIW,
Saying an application isn't working here, but works elsewhere isn't very helpful to help diagnose the issue.
You should give precise details on what you do and what you see.
Copy/paste of error messages, screenshots f.e.

[ilanrab]

I had the same exact wlan0 issue, right after the Two-Headed Dog 528 installation,...

...
It's every boot now for me, no connection whatsoever, network scan in network wizard not finding any network.

UPDATE: After a few days I noticed that the network kept dropping every hour or two.
I went to Puppy's internet menu and selected "Frisbee Network Manager Install".
The installation went flawlessly. I rebooted.
The network connectivity has been operating flawlessly since the Frisbee installation.